Published on 12, July, 2020
........and probably will hardly manage to again, as I may have forgotten my password ready. After a zillion things going wrong.....including the fact that all my brilliant ideas for a handle were already taken. Great minds.
I have not been diagnosed and won't be, I don't live in the UK and no doubt more ties to my lovely home country will be cut still further in the next year.
It was just seen as craziness when I was a kid, in the 1960's. It could be a spectrum thing but it could be something else. The red flags for the A word for me are that I regressed at 18 months and no longer spoke using grammatically correct sentences. Tantrums and obsessions during childhood, being scapegoated at high school and repeatedly being criticised from student years onwards for not engaging in enough eye contact.
But it is on the other side of the boot too as I teach at a high school for children who wish to specialise in the arts, and many are now getting diagnoses of dyspraxia, dyslexia as well as the odd autism I do feel the need to know how to work with these kids.
I would love to hear from older people who are only now recognising the hidden thing after all these years. Or from other teachers also confronting similar things.
The most important thing is my art incidentally.
Hi there!
Scape-goated. Yes! I totally understand and agree. I'm older and because of a manager bullying me at work, I began to analyse myself. The autism thing made sense. I'm now waiting for an assessment and I have joined a NAS group.
Exhaustion after being round groups of the humans is a big thing. Because of my manager I had a breakdown and I still don't understand why he did this.
I have spent as a female most of my life pretending. I dress up to match my character. It's exhausting.
I'm educated to degree level. My manager isn't. He likes the basic things in life. I write for relaxation. At the moment I find it difficult to focus on my writing. I'm ruining my life on focusing on how unhappy I am at work.
My plan for now is to create a new mask to fit in again. He might leave me alone.
Thank you for your post.
Well. It is! Another notification just an hour ago, four and a other one in the last month. I ordered this work as a throw pillow myself and showed to someone at an art bazaar last night, who commented 'she could see why' that one was popular. Yesterday was funny. I sold one home-made card to an enthusiastic New Yorker but the atmosphere seemed a little reserved. I had contacted one woman there over the possibility of having an atelier there, she had been near me the whole evening but did not recognise me from my Facebook avatar because of my hat
I've been doing that! Just looked and the cat pics are back too. I've got to be doing something else wrong! Well, practice makes perfect!
Yeah I'd imagine so. Demand usually fuels promotion! Hope the ball keeps rolling on the sales!
Sorry I didn't reply earlier, I'm not getting notifications from this thread or I'm still a bit new at using this forum. I've had debt problems too but that was due to alcohol and drug abuse. I worked my way to promotions and better jobs, paid off all my debts but was still numbing my mind for years. Mainly to dull my senses. My senses are basically my main symptom. I'm learning to cope though.
You have to keep clicking on where it says 'load next,', then all the new responses show up. That's how it seems to work anyway. There are these grey vertical lines on the left that seem to indicate where an extra hidden thread might lie.
Lol, it's disappeared! Well you got it anyway. The picture posts have disappeared now! Or I still can't work out how these threads work!
About them looking like mini ocelots? They sure do....
You both have cool cats!
Huh, where did my reply go? Did you see my reply about the Bengal from the other day @nexus9?
How old in this one?
Ditto.... she I said a fellow wild animal in life’s urban jungle! .... she also has more Instagram followers than my son!
Nice looking kitty Elephant in the Room, here is mine
I’d think I’d be cross if called “exotic”.... exotic/neurodiverse.... hey.... potato/potaarrrto lol!
i also have a Bengal...
She is beautiful and has a look of genuine wildness about her. The neighbours can tell she is a mix of some kind. One mum kept observing her, calling her a lounge leopard. She also thought she looked very Bengal. My other cat is very pretty too, she is a tortoiseshell and tabby mix. She has nothing if my other's restless temperament though.
Mortgage and exortionate taxes nearly bankrupted me a couple of times but it is good to be beyond that now. Deferring my gratification and all that, though it was thankess enough at the time. I am not sorry for not having married either.
"Mentally subnormal" is hardly going to instill confidence in any child or parent! I was considered "normal" until senior school. Then came the tests and the persecution! I too was considered bright but had "abnormal behaviour". The educational psycholgist said there was nothing wrong with me except boredom. I got expelled 2 months from the end of school, great! All the high expectations were dashed!
I've been engaged twice but alas I'm still single. Looking back I'm glad I never got married, it would never have worked. Getting married, having to get a mortgage and probably have kids, then having to look back with guilt at the wreckage is something I don't regret!
Meditation does help. Unfinished animal is an understatement. There's no end to the changes in behaviour that our species inflicts upon itself, lol!
You have a Bengal? Cool af! Even if she is a cross she's bound to be big! Lol, yeah they do look wild, like mini ocelots!
Mine has never moved in to a new house, she just visits! She has managed to dart into everyone's flat along my corridor at least once. I have to lock the front door by key as she can let herself out otherwise. She got out once without my knowing and I found her on the 9th floor.
Apparently Bengals also have a similar lack of regard for territory so I have to advocate for her Bengalistic tendencies although I don't call it that. The house rules stipulate 'no exotics' even if she is only maybe just a cross. Some neighbours are fond of her but one was outraged to find this large, wild looking beast strolling and sniffing around her flat with total impunity.
I checked the algorithms on the one that is most successful, but in fact I did not use that many words!
Tags certainly do matter but once a work gets popular I think it tends to be shown more.